In Shark Bay, Western Australia, Tursiops aduncus sweep the seafloor, covering beaks; the practice reshapes sensing while ...

From problem-solving to emotional intelligence, these five animals exhibit brainpower that rivals humans.

Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Now, in a new study, Veronika has demonstrated even more advanced scratching skills, deploying different ends of a wooden ...

A deck brush can be a good tool for the right task. Just ask Veronika, the Brown Swiss cow. Veronika uses both ends of a deck brush to scratch various parts of her body, researchers report January 19 ...

The idea that animals have their own forms of language has been explored, shared, and expounded upon by scientists for ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

The “Tool-Using” Wolf Seeing a gray wolf haul a crab trap out of the ocean looks like a scene from a science documentary that forgot its own rules. In a short video from Canada’s Pacific coast, a ...

The Trump administration is accelerating AI adoption across government, embedding the technology in policing, health care, defense and science.

So, you think you’re smart? Try to understand important words said in an entirely unknown language, used by a totally different species — now, multipl.